The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1924, Page 1

y ce euisiih onion facet lade aioe neat eee — 9 4 THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 83. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorgani The Land for the Users ~ The Industries'for the Workers." Protection of the Foreign: Recognition of Soviet Rut Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. > 7%” SOCIALISTS REJECT LA FOLLETT Berger Sees Wisconsin Party Back St. GIRL SHOWS UP [DAWES DEMANDS OPEN SHOP HAWTHORNE HIRE|cuivese curtpsmeN MURDERED TO AND FIRE PLAN Western Electric Gives Reporter a Job By ELSA BLOCH. Which of the hundreds of girls who flock every day to the em- ployment offices of Western Electric shall eat, and which of them shall not eat, is deter- mined, in the first instance, by two young women, Miss Ketten- ing an@ Miss Norton. Not much illusion is left in these employment heads. Altho they are brow-beaten by a long line of superiors; altho they are jacked up by the company pic- nics and “Sunday school” socials with which Western Electric tries to dope its employes; altho they are flattened into a moral! pulp by constant staff reorgani- zation, and are inflated once more to a rotund smugness by hot-air talks of “loyalty and) faith.” Yet these young women still have stamina enough to disbelieve the guff they are forced to sell the girls: that “Western Electric is the best place to work,” that “Western Electric pays more than any other company,” that (Continued on Page 4.) (DAILY WORKER GOTTEN QUT MONDAY DESPITE HELL AND HIGH WATER If you noticed that Monday's DAILY WORKER was not as neat looking as usual, don't blame it on us. During Sunday's big rainstorm the basement of the DAILY WORK- ER building was flooded by the backfire of the rotten sewers of the city of Chicago. Just when we were ready to send the last pages of the paper to the stereotypers, who work in the base- ment, they were driven out by the rising water. The water rose about a foot and a half, putting out the fires under the pot which melts the metal” for the stereotypers. We were compelled to send the last three pages outside to be stereo- typed in order to get your paper to you. It was a case of getting your paper to you possibly not as neat looking as is usual, or not getting any Monday paper at all. For a while there was high excite- ment in the printing plant. The fellows who work there all took a keen personal interest. No one wanted to see the paper miss an is- sue. There were some hard words ‘said against the sewers and the sewer rat politicians of Chicago before we managed to get those last three pages stereotyped. PROTECT BRITISH SHIPPING IN THE ORIENT; U. S. CONSUL O. KS IT (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, June 23.—Two more “dirty Chinks” have been murdered in order to make far Eastern waters safe for British shipping. The commander of the British warship, Cokshafer, using as an excuse the recent murder of an American, Edwin G. Hawley, threatened to bombard the city of Wahsein unless two leaders of the Junkmen’s Guild or union were exe- cuted in retaliation for the murder. Saying that he believed the Junkmen’s Guild was respon- sible for the murder, the commander of the British warship said he would blow the city of Wah- sein to hell unless the Chinese military authorities marched in the funeral procession of the American and then executed the two junkmen’s leaders. The Chinese junks, which are small sea and river going craft, are a thorn in the side of the British shipping in- terests in the orient. They can cafry cargoes to all parts of the far east at prices much below those charged by the British. The announced theory of the Brit- ish commander, who did not accuse the junkmen's leaders of having any- thing to do directly with the murder, was that Hawley had been killed by members of the Junkmen’s guild, and |he demanded that they be executed for that reason. The two leaders were taken to the place where Hawley’s body was found and executed by a rifle squad in view of the people of »| Wahsien..- : Hawley was connected with an American company which sold ma- chinery for river boats. The British commander said that the junkmen re- sented the introduction of machinery into their industry, and for that rea- son killed him. There is no evidence that this was true. U. S. Consul Clarence’J. Spiker re- ported that the inhabitants and Chi- nese military authorities at Wahsien appeared to be “thoroly awed” by this example of western justice. The Chinese who were executed met death with oriental stoicism and seemed vastly amused at the whole proceedings. They were being killed in order to save their city from bom- bardment by the wild foreigners, and made no fuss about it. This incident serves to recall that a similar situation—in a milder form —served as the spark which set off the bomb which engulfed Europe in the world war. It was Serbia’s re- fusal to submit to permitting the Austrians to try the murderer of Archduke Ferdinand which caused the mobilization of the armies of Bu- rope and the declaration of war be- tween the European powers. Steel Millionaire Suicide. An inquest will be held today into the death by suicide of William A. Field, an associate of J. P. Morgan in the steel industry. Send in that Subscription Today. SILENCE IN “GOLDFISH” ROOM YOUR ONLY SAFETY; UNION MEN WHO TALK TO COPS ARE FRAMED (By Ex-Police Reporter.) If you are ever arrested and given the “goldfish” you can fort yourself with the thought that the Supreme Court of Tllinois in all its dignity and solemnity has ruled that a confession ga’ ed thru the use of force cannot be used to help convict a man. ' That means that if you succeed in telling a court about your being “goldfished” and the police don’t deny that they gave you the “goldfish” the judge must" ci him from the police. rule that your confession is in- admissable as evidence. “Keep Your Mouth Shut!” To such a worker there is only one But the radical worker who may|thing to say and that is, “Keep your get picked up by the police wants/mouth shut.” Don’t talk. Refuse to something more than an academic de | talk till you are permitted to consult| but a Catholic state he is out of the cision by a bunch of old fogies to pro-, JAY LOVESTONE: ! (Continued on page 3.) WHITE NIGHTIE PERILS CHANCE OF WILSON HEIR But Wall Street Would Like to Use Him (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, June 23.—The K. K. K. nightshirt that William G. McAdoo is charged with fingering is causing Catholic jackasses to kick up their hind eee. McAdoo’s shrewd choice of Senator Phelan of California to place his name in nomination is expected to offset much of the anti-klan opposition, but the result is a gamble—the more so because of the klan resolution to which candidates may be ex- pected to subscribe. Wall Street Likes McAdoo. Wall Street, which will dominate this convention, is not unfriendly to Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. It knows him as the shrewd promoter of the Hudson tunnel project two de- cades ago. And during the war Mc- Adoo excited the admiration of the Street for the prompt way in which he carried out orders in the Liberty bond campaigns. Equally was high finance pleased with McAdoo’s suc- cess.in keeping railway men from striking during the war while keeping their wages well below the sums paid to war munition mechanics. That Doheny Record. But Wall Street is divided as to the wisdom of putting McAdoo up. There are doubts whether the Catholic op- position to McAdoo can be dissipated and his friendliness to the K. K. K. ex- plained. Then it is felt that, while his $250,000 retainer from Doheny was entirely legitimate from the view- point of the Street, yet the crude pop- ulace might not take such a sane view. John W. Davis of the House of Mor- gan fits the Street's ideal far better, but Davis is not regarded as a suffi- ciently strong candidate, McAdoo, on the other hand, with the smell of the brotherhood offices upon him to set off the oil odor. Al Smith a Wet Roman. Al Smith has been useful to the Street in local service, but he is not taken so seriously as a national fig- ure. His Catholicism is not needed to win the support of the Catholic heirarchy.. American cardinals and archbishops are sufficiently broad to stand by the candidate of their class. They are traditionally Democratic, and while they might vote for the other capitalist party, there is no dan- ger of their going Farmer-Labor. On the other hand, Smith's Cathol- icism would alienate millions of hys- terical Protestant voters. In any running. Author of “The Govern- ment Strikebreaker” |WELL AN’ MARIA FOR ANTI-UNION LABOR LAWS Cal’s Mate Tells Minute Men’s ; Program By LAURENCE TODD Federated Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 23.— dust when Mussolini is dis- covered to be operating his noble fascist movement thru a clique of murderers, his fore- most American champion, Gen. Dawes, gets the Coolidge nomi- nation for vice-president and proceeds to give this statement of the purposes of his self-styled American Fascisti—the Minute Men of the Constitution. “The Minute Men have put an open shop plank into their plat- form which is designed to be forced upon political parties and to crystallize into laws that would be strong for constitu- tional justice, just as the law- less labor leader does when he orders American citizens killed or assaulted when they go peacenbly to work.... The Minute-Men challenge the right of the labor demagogues to speak for the patriotic citizen that belongs to his organization. “John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, talks about labor and the claptrap about injunctions. It is feared by Sam Gompers, Walker and Victor Olan- der, secretary of the Illinois Feder- ation of Labor, as an encroachment on the liberty off@the American peo- ple. It is not liberty encroachment they fear. It is the fear of encroach- ment on their privilege to assault and kill American citizens. “They do not represent honest union labor but they intimidate cow- ardly politicians when it comes to law enforcement, and that has got to stop in the city of Chicago. Saved Injunction Judges. “We went out and saved two judges, known as injunction judges, Judge Sullivan\and Judge Holden, at the last election.” Dawes, who first crept into politics as a Mark Hanna errand-boy, and then was promoted to a Rockefeller- Morgan bank in Chicago, founded his American fascisti, or minute men, in the epring of 1923. At that time Harry Datigherty announced that Harding would again be a candidate in 1924, and. that Daugherty'’s record would be his main issue. “Open Shop,” Chief Issue. Dawes added a postscript to this statement, saying that he would try to make the “open shop” the chief issue of the Harding re-election cam- paign. Daugherty had just secured his injunction against the striking railway shopmen, and was in full agreement with Dawes as to the im- portance of kicking the unions good and hard. But, to make sure that his plan got a hearing, Dawes organized his minute men and announced that they would conduct their own campaign. Another Gland Result. OTTAWA, June 23.—Because his war wound in the head has caused him to grow seven inches taller and to increase in weight to 440 pounds so that he cannot work any more, John Wilfred Calhoun of Toronto, has appealed to the government for a pension. |The Daily Worker Will Show You How Donkey Party Performs in New Yor “BOB” MINOR: rive. «the Liberator” ; | These two working class writers will tell the readers of the DAILY WORKER, in articles and pictures, the story of the Democratic National Conven 4 . 4 DELEGATES OVERWHELMINGLY DECLARE FOR CLASS PARTY IN WAR ON C. P. P. A. ST By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 23.—The Wisconsin soclall practically all that is left of the national socialist party, sta committed today to the Farmer-Labor Class Party principles down by the gathering of Farmer-Labor forces in St. Paul fa week. 5 . In their state convention here, with the exception of or three lone votes in opposition, the delegates of the Wi socialists instructed their delegates to the national socialist convention at Cleveland, July 6, to split completely with n LaFollette unless he becomes the candidate of a “labor pi * Women at St. Paul Sketches by Lydia Gibson ALICE LORRAINE DALY. Secretary of the Convention. Quick Rebel in 1920 State Senator Quick is also a del- egate to the Cleveland C. P. P. A. gathering, but states he is doubtful if he will attend. “Will you get in touch with the national executive committee of the St. Paul Convention that will be in Cleveland for the meeting of the C. P. P. A.?” he was asked, but was | rather hesitant about giving a definite answer. Quick was one of the Wisconsin del- egates to the national convention of the socialist party in New York City, in 1920, that fought for affiliation of the Socialist Party with the Communist International. At that time he was considered a rank traitor to the major- ity of the delegation that stood by Berger’s anti-Communist position. In- stead of leaving the socialist party in 1921, with the forces organized in the “Committee for the Communist Inter- national,” he remained in the socialist party, ANITA CHARLOTTE WHITNEY, Delegate from California. JESSIE BULLOCK KASTNER, The Assistant Secretary. Legion Boys Get All Het Up About “Pink Pacifis: The “ping pacifist” problem of Evanston and other parts, particularly as shown in the schools and churches, was the subject of “study” and dis- cussion by a mass meeting of the North Shore American Legion posts last night. The local Fascisti are try- ing to figure out how they can stop the “national menace,” The oath of the pacifists never to fight for the country is “treason,” the dear boys prate, if carried out, and they are go- ing to do their best to see that capli- talist imperialism doeg not lose its source of cannon fodder, into his own, inevitably, by tat himself onto the campaign of I and thus getting onto the fi of the daily press. He is, for the rule of the great o and against Wall Stree supposed to rhyme with McAdoo, the protege of Do (Continued on page ) and with his supporters in the Conference for Progressive ical Action. man at Washington, put up a hopeless fight for co-operation LaFollette if he should run as a candidate “independent of two old parties.” On the final vote only two or three voices wi ity went with the stand championed by the socialist mayor, W. Hoan, and the socialist state senator William F. Quic’ “GO TO ST. PAUL!”—Berger. + their position they will align themselves with the forces that met at St. Paul,” declared Berger, in speaking with your correspon- dent after the smoke of thet——_____—_. ae : 7 crushing defeat, had viown LESSON OF SAN ‘ away. In his speech Mayor Hoan had} PEDRO RAID KY go fishing in Northern Wiscon- a sin. than attend the oe NITE litical Action. But he will no doubt attend as one of the dele- gates of the national socialist Workers Don’t “By MARY REED COPELAND. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 23. Workers’ hall in San Pedro r is still a live issue among the ri and union men in this, the real caj Prisons. The attitude of the agencies of the government, 7 and press and prosecutor’s offie the wheels of justice when a Work class organization is the victii ‘lawlessness, cially, of course, the Los Times, prepared the ground for raid by deliberately connecting t headlines day after day, includ charges of distributing germs of” hoof and mouth disease, until thes synonomous. It being impossib however, to blame the wobblies’ a disaster which occurred at sé@a, | The crushing defeat administered to|100 per cent Americans, they did Berger’s pro-La Follette position was |next best thing, and published 7 a veritable coup d'etat. It was not|that the event had caused socialists had permitted the nomina-|who were planning to blow up tion of a socialist state ticket without} undertaking house where the (Continued on page 2.) (Continued on page 2.) ANTICIPATION; STRUGGLE FOR POSTS AT BANQUET TABLE OF CAPITAL NEW YORK, June 23.—The great scramble for pickin; in the pre-convention milling around the Waldorf hotel. E thing is an issue in New York today, except the demand 7 workers and farmers. Klan or anti—wet or dry—Cath or swim—you can make an is- sue of anything just so it does not touch the matter of capi- Al Smith and Wm. McAdoo occupy the front pews on the day before the convention opens in Madison Square Representative Victor L. Berger, the lone socialist heard supporting Berger’s stand, while the overwhelming m “If my comrades are logical and intellectually honest in battle, that had resulted in his} declared that he would rather Conference for Progressive Po- wise Bosses Have It If th party. raid on the I. W. W. Marine Tri of the state of Orange Grove nish a fine study of the gi In the first place, the paper I. W. W. with acts of violence in erage person came to think the Hoan Against Berger a battleship manned exclusively 1 expected. Two years ago the Wisconsin |able rejoicing among the I, W. DONKEY HOSTS GATHER IN FEAST OF pected to go with the democratic nominations this ye Protestant—Mutt or Jeff—sink} talist exploitation. Garden. Wm. Jennings Bryan comes Send In that Subscription Today. oa